NY Botanical Garden Day Trip May 30

NATURALIST-LED TRIP TO
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN MAY 30
Registration Now Open

BASKING RIDGE, NJ - The Naturalists at the Somerset County Park Commission will journey to the New York Botanical Garden on Thursday, May 30, 2013 for “The Renaissance Garden and Healing Power of Plants.”

Adults are invited to join the Naturalists for the day trip to visit the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to experience a re-creation of the famed botanical garden at the University of Padua (c. 1545) where visitors will explore the intersection of plants, health, and medicine.

The Italian Renaissance Garden is inspired by Europe's first botanical garden, a lush landscape of Mediterranean flowers, including exotic varieties, endangered species, and medicinal plants. Healing Plants Around the World features the research of some of the Garden's leading experts in science, medicine, and ethnobotany. Visitors will discover how cultures around the world rely on plants for food and medicine to cosmetics.

The trip will leave from the Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Road in basking Ridge, NJ at 9:00 A.M., returning at 5:00 P.M. Fee is $55 per adult and $45 per senior.

Registration is available online at www.somersetcountyparks.org, by phone at 908-766-2489, or at the Center. Prepayment is required.